Naacp Waiting For School Plan

NAACP officials are waiting to see if any action is taken on a report suggesting ways the Lake school district can hire more minority teachers and improve the performance of black students.

T.H. Poole, state and local president of the NAACP, said Wednesday the organization would postpone releasing findings of its own study so school officials can work on ideas suggested by the task force.

The ideas are designed to help the district increase the number of black teachers by 10 percent each year for the next five years.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People education specialist Audrey C. Fisher of Atlanta was called in to help prepare the report.

''We are hanging back to get an idea of what the School Board is going to do,'' Poole said Wednesday. ''The fact they may have to lay some employees off gives them the chance to make a big difference. It wouldn't be fair to start laying off any of the 104 black teachers.''